Filmmaking

BIG NEWS FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE

Just posted on GreenCine Daily is news that David Hudson will moving his blog on January 1 from the aforementioned site to IFC.com. In his post he muses on the possible future direction of his blog: I would guess that, in the long run, as we become just as proficient with our video and audio editing programs as we have been with our text editing programs, there’ll be a lot more online viewing and listening to point to. In the short run, we’ll keep experimenting with the still relatively new means of publishing available to just about everyone. Fads (e.g., […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
JOINING UP

Filmmaker Jeremy Parker sent the following email about a new site you may find useful: I graduated from Boston University Film school last year, and after graduating I went out on a mission to biuld a website that would help all filmmakers find one another and work together. Being a filmmaker with no money, I experienced how hard it is to find solid an talented crew in your area to work with. So now 11 months later I want to introduce to you www.joinmycrew.com It is a completely free website. We Beta launched last week and the site will only […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
WHAT IF YOU DIDN’T GET INTO SUNDANCE?

Take solace — there are a lot of you. Sage advice comes from Heidi Van Lier, author of the Indie Film Rule Book, at her new blog at Film Independent. An excerpt: One wounded filmmaker already had a plan in place, and they’d already rallied the troops. They were suffering as much as anyone. They’d been blindsided, too. But they had the clarity to ask if I would meet with them to help them with strategy in the following week, come up with a new game-plan to sell their film themselves. And they had already called several other people as […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
LIVE, FROM YOUR BEDROOM, IT’S…

Want to become an internet TV broadcaster? The Participatory Culture Foundation tells you how. Their six-step tutorial marches you through everything from equipment buying advice to licensing issues to promotion. (Hat tip: Truly Free Film.)

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
FILM COMMENT’s TOP 20

I contribute my “best of” list to Film Comment‘s critics’ poll, and, in advance of their January/February issue the magazine has posted the results on their website. The winner? Topping the Film Comment list of Best Released Films is Kelly Reichardt’s exquisite Wendy and Lucy. At the top of the Best Unreleased Films is Lucrezia Martel’s The Headless Woman. See the full results at the link.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
IFP MEMBERSHIP GOES INTERACTIVE

There are a few ways to subscribe to Filmmaker. You can click here from now until December 26 and enter the promo code FMWIN08 and take part in our special holiday promotion: four issues for $9, a 50% savings. Or, you can click here and pay $9 and receive four issues digitally plus all of our back issues through 2005. Or, you can become an IFP Interactive member, pay $35, and still get four issues for a year. Why would you decide to get the magazine by joining the IFP’s new Interactive Membership? Well, because in addition to Filmmaker you […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2008 Filmmaking
HOW WE’LL WATCH IN 2009

That’s really the question. Should we be adapting our distribution and content to new ways in which our audiences will be watching our work, or is all this new media talk just a wild goose chase? CineVegas’s Roger Trinch has some thoughts in a thoughtful blog post that launches into ’09. An excerpt: Short form content is online kingDuh, right? Then why are companies still trying to push for feature film distribution through widgets and the like? Who wants to watch a two hour movie on a 2-inch by 2-inch size player? Go to what’s this year’s success story, Hulu, […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 18, 2008 Filmmaking
BEST COMMENT ON AN ILLNESS EVER

I’m back from the Dubai Film Festival (expect my coverage early next week) and am now rushing to get the next issue of the magazine together, so that’s why there hasn’t been as much material up on the blog. But I had to quickly post this quote from David Mament that appeared in Variety regarding Jeremy Piven, who has left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow due to a “high mercury count.” Piven has informed the producers that he hasn’t been feeling well and that the condition is attributable to a high mercury count. The show’s producers weren’t returning […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 18, 2008 Filmmaking
HARD TIMES KEEP COMING

Over at Variety‘s The Circuit, Mike Jones recaps the latest indie casualties, as last week indie companies First Look, Peace Arch and Yari Film Group reported layoffs (and lawsuits).

By Jason Guerrasio on Dec 14, 2008 Filmmaking
TOUR DE FOURS: EPISODE 5

Apologies for the dearth of posting — I’m in Dubai at the festival, about which I’ll be writing later. For the moment, though, one hot-off-the-servers link for those of you following Todd Sklar and Range Life’s quartet of traveling indie films: the latest in their series of video tour diaries. View it below.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 14, 2008 Filmmaking

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